Re: [math] Multiple Algorithms

2011-09-01 Thread Greg Sterijevski
Thanks for the response Phil. This question has been on my mind for a month or so. I was working on some Student T approximators (ergo my check in of the NIST data for Student T), when I noticed that the commons Student T was based on the continuing fraction version of the incomplete beta formulat

Re: [math] Multiple Algorithms

2011-08-31 Thread Phil Steitz
On 8/31/11 10:05 PM, Greg Sterijevski wrote: > Hello All, > > This question popped into my head this evening, what is the right way to > handle multiple algorithms which purport to calculate the same thing? There > are, for example, a couple of ways to calculate the student t cdf. What is > the com

[math] Multiple Algorithms

2011-08-31 Thread Greg Sterijevski
Hello All, This question popped into my head this evening, what is the right way to handle multiple algorithms which purport to calculate the same thing? There are, for example, a couple of ways to calculate the student t cdf. What is the common's philosophy on deciding: 1. Whether to allow multi